Card or price ticket holder



ammo I June 2, 1936. E. J. BAAS CARD OR PRICE TICKET HOLDER Filed June 12, 1935 3mm aas,

Patented June 2, 1936 UNHTED STATES CARD 0R PRICE TICKET HOLDER Edmund J. Baas, Rochester, N. Y.

Application June 12,

3 Claims.

The present invention relates to card holders and is especially useful as a price tag holder in connection with articles on window display. It has to do moreover particularly with holders for price tags as employed in connection with shoes and like articles which are commonly turned and tilted at various angles in a display case or window, not only for the purpose of creating an attractive display, but in many instances for the purpose of emphasizing some particular portion of the displayed article.

In the window display of shoes it is most common to exhibit the same upon forms within the shoes, and these forms constitute, in this instance, convenient supports for price tag holders although the variety of tilted or angled positions of the displayed shoes makes it a primary consideration that the tag holder be not only of a simple, inexpensive nature, but readily adjustable both horizontally and vertically to present a full face view of the tag from the front, irrespective of the particular position of the shoe.

It is for the above reasons that my invention proposes a universally adjustable tag holder capable of supporting a tag in a perpendicular position to full front view irrespective of the tilt or angle of its support, as well as one which will be durable, cheap and will permit of ready interchange of tags.

These objects are realized and the resulting advantages obtained by the device which will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawing, which latter forms a part of this specification and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the practical application of my invention in connection with a shoe on display.

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view longitudinally through a portion of the support, showing my improvement in side view and partly broken away and in section.

Figure 3 is a similar view transversely of the support.

Figure 4 is a top plan view of the parts shown in Figures 2 and 3, and

Figure 5 is a view similar to Figures 2 and 3 showing a slight modification.

Referring now to these figures, my invention proposes a tag holder which preferably, although not necessarily, consists of a spherical or balllike member I 0 having a card receiving slot H. The slot l l is of a width to receive and frictionally hold a price ticket or card and is preferably of a depth just sufficient for this purpose, and less than half the diameter of the member I0.

1935, Serial No. 26,300

As above stated the member is preferably spherical although for the purposes of the present invention it would suffice that that portion of its surface lying opposite to and beyond the slot ll be spherical or in other words that the member Iii present a spherical surface of somewhat more than half the diameter of the member. The member I0 is seated, in use, in a shallow socket, the socket also being of a depth less than half the diameter of the member, and in this socket, the member ill of its own weight creates sufilcient friction between its spherical surface and the wall of the socket to hold the member in various positions to which its obvious universal adjustability adapts it to be moved.

The socket receiving the member 10, as above described, may be formed in any suitable support which, as shown in Figure 1, for instance, may be a pedestal It, the concave socket l3 being formed in the top of the pedestal. At its lower end the pedestal I4 is formed with a stem [5 for disposition in a conformable bore ,lfi of a shoe form I! or other similar display holder.

On the other hand, the member I0 may be disposed with its spherical surface in a similar socket H8 in the top surface of the shoe form I! and the latter may have in fact both a socket l8 and a bore l9 depending centrally of the socket so that it is permitted to either place the member In directly in the bore l8 or if so desired utilize the member NJ in the bore l3 of the pedestal l4 and seat the latter by means of its stem iii in the bore l9, as shown in Figure 5.

It is obvious from the foregoing that since the socket in either of the above instances is of a depth less than half the diameter of the member IE3, the latter has a very substantial range of universal adjustment so that the card 20 disposed in the siot H of this member may be tilted to various positions vertically and horizontally and in this way compensate for the horizontal angling or vertical tilting of a shoe in connection with which the improved tag holder is employed. Thus while the invention may be applied to various articles it is especially desirable in connection with the window display of shoes, the forms or holders of which constitute effective supports for the tag holding member, and the various positions of which on display utilize to the fullest extent the universal adaptability of the member l0 so that the price tag supported thereby may be maintained in an upright position with its full face to the front of the display window irrespective of the tilted position of the shoe.

The tag holding device of my invention may be economically formed of various materials insuring almost unlimited life, may be easily stored in disuse without danger of deterioration, may

' 2. A card holder consisting of a support having" a socket, and a member having card supporting means and having a socket engaging surface seated in said socket and universally movably adjustable with respect thereto, the weight of the member constituting the sole means for maintaining the same with its card in various adjusted positions.

3. A card holder consisting of a support having a bore, a pedestal having an upper concave socket, and a lower stem seated in the bore of the support, and a member having card holding means and a spherical surface universally movably seated in the socket of the pedestal.

EDMUND J. BAAS. 

